Development of epitope-based peptide vaccine against novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-COV-2): Immunoinformatics approach.
J Med Virol
; 92(6): 618-631, 2020 06.
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| ID: mdl-32108359
ABSTRACT
Recently, a novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) emerged which is responsible for the recent outbreak in Wuhan, China. Genetically, it is closely related to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. The situation is getting worse and worse, therefore, there is an urgent need for designing a suitable peptide vaccine component against the SARS-COV-2. Here, we characterized spike glycoprotein to obtain immunogenic epitopes. Next, we chose 13 Major Histocompatibility Complex-(MHC) I and 3 MHC-II epitopes, having antigenic properties. These epitopes are usually linked to specific linkers to build vaccine components and molecularly dock on toll-like receptor-5 to get binding affinity. Therefore, to provide a fast immunogenic profile of these epitopes, we performed immunoinformatics analysis so that the rapid development of the vaccine might bring this disastrous situation to the end earlier.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Viral Vaccines
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Coronavirus Infections
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Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
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Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte
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Toll-Like Receptor 5
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Pandemics
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Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
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Betacoronavirus
Language:
En
Journal:
J Med Virol
Year:
2020
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Article